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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Exquisite Hour Sarah Connolly (Mezzo) Eugene Asti (Piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/May/2009 ] "hugely impressive disc, testifying to the versatility and range of a singer who has already drawn comparisons with Janet Baker" The Guardian |
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MAHLER
Totenfeier / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Sarah Connolly (Mezzo) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski [ Signum / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "rich, ardent singing of Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen." The Times, 29th September 2012 *** |
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KORNGOLD
Songs Sarah Connolly (mezzo) William Dazeley (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - July 2009 |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Il Re Pastore (complete opera) Sarah Fox, Ailish Tynan, John Mark Ainsley, Anna Devin & Benjamin Hulett / Classical Opera, Ian Page [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2015 ] "Page's unobtrusive pacing of the pastoral mini-drama and sage weighting of orchestrally accompanied recitatives pull the listener along gently." (Gramophone Editors Choice Nov 2015) |
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Sarah Nicolls & Nicola Sweeney
Kats-Chernin: Ragtime & Blue [ Signum / CD - released 9/May/2005 ] |
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DEBUSSY / ADÈS / RAVEL
Sound Escapes Signum Quartett [ Capriccio / CD - released 25/May/2016 ] It is a plea for the direct experience of a music that had become fed up with the constraints of traditional forms. Debussy's music especially reveals characteristics that justifiably move it into the proximity of Impressionist painting, as it... |
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LUDWIG THUILLE
String Quartets Signum Quartet [ Capriccio / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] Thuille worked as a composer and teacher of the Münchner Schule, one of the leading musical centres of Europe at the turn of the 20th century. He was a friend of Richard Strauss and their friendship is well documented in Strauss' letters. These two... |
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SCHUBERT
Schubert: Aus der Ferne Signum Quartett [ Pentatone / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] A fresh perspective on Schubert's romanticism and lyricism. Hailed as one of the most adventurous and outstanding string quartets of today, both in the performance of modern pieces and the core repertoire, Signum Quartett now releases its first... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Lebensmuth Signum Quartett [ Pentatone / CD - released 19/May/2023 ] Lebensmuth is the final episode of Signum Quartett's acclaimed Schubert trilogy, in which early and late string quartets are combined with song arrangements created by the group's violist Xandi van Dijk. Schubert's First String Quartet in G Minor,... |
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Silvia Tro Santafe/Orquesta Si
Rossini Mezzos [ Signum Records / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] |
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TOBY YOUNG
The Art of Dancing: 21st-Century Concertos for Trumpet, Piano and Strings Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Clare Hammond (piano), English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Simon Desbruslais returns to disc on Signum with an album that continues to expand the repertoire of the trumpet even further, with four new commissions for Trumpet, Piano and String Orchestra Toby Young's The Art of Dancing is described by the... |
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DEBORAH PRITCHARD / ROBERT SAXTON / JOHN MCGABE
Psalm: Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos Simon Desbruslais (trumpet) / Orchestra of the Swan, Kenneth Woods & David Curtis [ Signum / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] Seeking to expand the trumpet's repertoire of concerto and orchestra works, Simon Desbruslais was inspired after performing Robert Saxton's Psalm to help comission the three remaining works on this programme. |
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MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / BOLCOM / GERSHWIN / etc
Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored Simon Preston (organ) [ Signum / CD - released 10/Aug/2006 ] "Now Simon Preston has devised this magnificent programme of music, magnificently played and impressivley recorded, that suits the instrument's ample dimensions ideally" - The Sunday Telegraph |
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SCHUBERT
Schubert: Swansong Sir John Tomlinson (bass), Christopher Glynn (piano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Juian Bliss (clarinet), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn) [ Signum / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] Christopher Glynn continues his series of late Schubert song cycles in English, joined by celebrated soloists Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Julian Bliss and Alec Frank-Gemmill. Titled by the works first publisher following Schubert's death,... |
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BARTOK
Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11 Sir John Tomlinson, Michelle DeYoung & Juliet Stevenson (narrator) / Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Voices, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] An unforgettable live-concert recording, selected from the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa- ekka Salonen's season of works by Béla Bartók - 'Infernal Dance'. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Complete String Quartets The Smith Quartet [ Signum / 2 CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "If success was measured according to output and sales units alone, Glass would be head and shoulders above his contemporaries ... played with characteristic precision and projection by the ensemble" Gramophone |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Dances The Smith Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] The Smith Quartet return to Signum with a new album of commissions and world premiere recordings, all centered on the theme of 'Dance'. The featured programme is a veritable 'who's-who' of contemporary composition, including works from Michael... |
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STEVE REICH
Different Trains The Smith Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 2/Feb/2006 ] "the Smith Quartet on the admirable Signum label is beautifully clear, and played with a rather touching delicacy which brings out the subtle poetry of the ending" BBC Music Magazine |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ghost Stories The Smith Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] The Independent on Sunday "As versatile as the Kronos Quartet, and smoother than the Brodskys, The Smith Quartet have edged ahead of their competitors in contemporary chamber music" |
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SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Soile Isokoski / Monica Groop / Stig Andersen / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "Sometimes less is not more. More is exhilarating...the music-making was superb...And what terrific soloists!" ***** Richard Morrison, The Times |